SHISEIDO AMERICAS CORPORATIONAPPLICANT PERSONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING NOTICEINTRODUCTION
We respect your privacy at Shiseido Americas Corporation (“SAC”). This Applicant Personal
Information Processing Notice (“Applicant Notice”) tells you what you need to know about our
processing of your personal information when you apply for a job at SAC, either as an internalor external applicant. This Applicant Notice is compliant with the California Consumer Privacy
Act (CCPA) and is applicable to SAC employees who are residents of California and SACemployees who are residents in all other states.
PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION•

What do we collect?
❖ Personal information provided by you, including first and last name, address,
email address, phone number, gender, date of birth, nationality/citizenship, andgovernment-issued identifiers (if permitted under applicable law, including yourSocial Security number and/or passport).
❖ Personal information provided by you regarding your working skills, education,
certifications, curriculum vitae and employment qualifications, including
information provided by previous employers and other references, if permitted
under applicable law.
❖ Personal information provided by you when choosing to complete yourprofessional profile in any recruiting platform utilized by SAC, including voluntarily
updating your professional experience, business title, education, skills, etc.
❖ Personal information obtained from a third-party when performing authorizedreference checks, background checks, or verifying personal information you
provided to us, if permitted under applicable law.

•Why do we collect it?
❖ To fulfill our obligations as your current or prospective employer. For example, if
you are successful candidate, we process your personal information to begin
formalizing our employment relationship.
❖ For making recruitment or employment decisions. For example, to evaluate
active candidates for a particular job opening or to follow the progress being
made in the recruitment process.
❖ To advance or defend SAC’s legal rights.
❖ To prevent or detect fraudulent or other unlawful activities.
❖ To comply with a law, regulation or valid legal process and, in appropriate
circumstances, cooperating with law enforcement.
❖ For business planning and improving our operations.
❖ For access control and company security.
❖ To meet our legal obligations.

•Who else might receive it?
❖ Your personal information is only to be processed by persons working for and on
behalf of SAC on a need-to-know basis for the purposes described in thisApplicant Notice.

❖ When SAC engages third-party service providers for the processing of yourpersonal information, they solely process your personal information based on ourcontract with them and for no other purposes.
❖ SAC does not share your personal information with third parties unless required
to do so by law (including external/governmental bodies), or as reasonably
necessary with trusted service providers working for us to help us administer therecruitment process. For example, we work with third-party service providers
offering hosting services for our careers website. We also work with independent
recruiters to help identify potential candidates for job openings.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We will not retain your personal information longer than necessary. We are guided by thisApplicant Notice, internal SAC record retention schedules, and applicable legal obligations.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
To operate our global business, we may need to transfer your personal information to countries
other than your country of residence, and your personal information may be transferred to,processed in, or shared within the United States, Japan, or countries in the European Economic
Area. We make such transfers always in accordance with this Applicant Notice and applicableprivacy laws.
LEGAL DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any institution, government, court, agency, orauthority (including law enforcement agencies) to whom we are required to disclose it by law oras necessary to protect our legal rights or the rights of others, to prevent harm, or in accordancewith your instructions.
SECURITY
We use commercially reasonable physical, procedural, and technical safeguards to deter
unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of your personal information.
We instruct our employees that information must be handled in accordance with this Applicant
Notice, and any misuse by employees may be subject to disciplinary action.
CHANGES TO THIS APPLICANT NOTICE
It may be necessary for time to time for us to modify this Applicant Notice to reflect changes inthe way we collect and use personal information or changes in privacy-related laws, regulations,and industry standards. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes to the Applicant
Notice, including via links posted on the SAC careers web page.
WHO TO CONTACT
Please feel free to contact a member of the SAC Human Resources Department if you have anyquestions regarding our Applicant Notice or about the use of your personal information.
HR Operations Group
HROpsCenter@sac.shiseido.com

EFFECTIVE DATEThis notice is effective as of January 1, 2020 and may be amended from time to time.